Informing, engaging & connecting the people of the world. OCTOBER 25, 2019

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A unifying force could be at work, at least temporarily, in America’s politically-polarized capital city. Thousands of Washington Nationals fans of all political stripes came to watch parties in their home ballpark this week, as their team won the first two games of a best-of-seven baseball championship series against the Houston Astros in Texas. This weekend the series comes to D.C.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On October 25, 1994, Susan Smith claims her car with two small children was carjacked by an African-American man in South Carolina. After nine days of intense, national media coverage, her story began to fall apart. Law enforcement determined she made it up and had purposely driven the car into a nearby lake, killing her two children. She was found guilty on two counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

In a hard-hitting speech on China, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence also criticized American companies for selling out this country’s values to protect their market access in the world’s most populous country.

African migrants evacuated from Libyan detention centers to Rwanda say they still want to make the dangerous journey to Europe, despite the abuse they encountered in Libya.

Once darkness falls every Oct. 31, American children dress up in costumes and go from house to house. Each time a front door opens, they call out, “Trick or treat!” The kids are usually rewarded with small pieces of packaged candy.

VIDEO: Syrian Kurds are on the run , and American troops are pelted with fruit as Kurds express anger over the White House decision to pull troops out of Northern Syria. What’s next for the Kurds? Will they ever realize their dream of an independent Kurdish state? Plugged In examines the Kurdish conundrum on“Kurds: The Search for Peace and Stability.”